Ben Cardin: “I particularly want to thank my colleague, John Sarbanes, for being here.”

You have found the Achilles hill of the Putin regime. They rape, torture and kill with impunity and keep their ill-gotten gains in the West.

Thank you very much for holding this hearing on the implementation of Global Magnitsky sanctions.

Why do we not widen this piece of legislation out so it includes all human rights abusers in Russia?

We need to consider how we deal with that.